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Tularosa gets state money for water projects

Cloudcroft, Chaparral and others also get money

By John Bear

jbear@alamogordonews.com @johnbearwithme on Twitter

Posted:
07/02/2013 07:31:50 PM MDT

Tularosa and other communities in the Tularosa Basin and Sacramento Mountains have received state and federal funds to use on water projects. The money is doled out through the Colonias program. (John Bear/Daily News)

Tularosa has received about $1.34 million in various state and federal funds doled out by the New Mexico Finance Authority to use on water projects in the village.

According to a press release issued by the NMFA, the organization convened a meeting of the Colonias Infrastructure Board last month, where it portioned out money to various communities, Tularosa among them.

Cloudcroft and water associations in La Luz, Chaparral, Timberon and Lincoln County also received funds.

The meeting capped off a six month process during which eligible communities applied for funds under the Colonias Infrastructure Act, which establishes the board and dedicates 5 percent of the state's annual Severance Tax Bond proceeds to a variety of infrastructure projects.

The board distributed about $25 million for the year.

About $16.6 million of the total came from the state severance tax bond, $7.3 million from the United State Department of Agriculture and another $992,000 from Community Development Block Grant Program from the Housing and Urban Development department.

Tularosa is set to receive $849,982 in state severance tax bond funds and another $492,897 in federal funds distributed through the CDBG program.

Projects eligible for the funds include water, wastewater, solid waste disposal, road and flood control and housing "pre-infrastructure."

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To qualify for the funds, communities must be designated as Colonias and be located within 150 miles of the Mexican border.

Tularosa village records show it received about $350,000 through the Colonias program last year.

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